nola.com BY BEN MYERS | Staff writer New Orleans mayors will no longer have access to a city-controlled apartment in Jackson Square after City Council members on Thursday quashed Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s veto of an ordinance ending the longtime perk. With a 5-2 vote, the City Council upheld a measure requiring that the French Market...
wdsu.com Updated: 8:58 AM CDT Aug 18, 2023 Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter The City of New Orleans is being fined by the Municipal Police Employee Retirement System (MPERS) for $38 million over the next 15 years due to a drastic drop in New Orleans Police Department officers. State law requires that if a department...
wdsu.com Updated: 7:38 PM CDT Apr 27, 2023 Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter A call for more supervision over those protecting the New Orleans mayor, the Office of Inspector General just released a report raising concerns over a lack of procedure in place for Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s executive detail. “We determined that the executive protection team did...
wdsu.com Updated: 8:49 PM CDT Apr 7, 2023 Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter Michel assumed the interim job in 2020 after inspector general Derry Harper resigned when it was discovered that he rarely showed up to work. Since he took on this role, the team has hit the ground running. “We had a 400% increase...
wdsu.com Updated: 8:10 AM CDT Apr 6, 2023 Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter The OIG conducted a City-Wide Risk Assessment in 2019 and 2020. Based on those risk-assessment procedures, the OIG included OPCD among the top ten riskiest entities within the City. The OIG determined this risk partially as a result of concerns raised by...
nola.com BEN MYERS | Staff writer The Orleans Parish Communication District made credit card purchases that ran afoul of its own policies and state public bid laws over the course of three years, and may have violated the state constitution with purchases of employee gifts, according to a report from the New Orleans Office of Inspector General....
WDSU.com; Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter Updated: 7:45 PM CDT Mar 30, 2023 The New Orleans Office of Inspector General has issued a subpoena for records surrounding the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office organization chart, termination and new hire reports, as well as any documents related to the hotel rooms booked during Carnival 2023. The OIG issued...
Author: Mike Perlstein / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 5:29 PM CDT March 30, 2023 Updated: 5:29 PM CDT March 30, 2023 NEW ORLEANS — Amid multiple recent controversies and a management shake-up at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, another battle is brewing after the city’s Inspector General was forced to issue a subpoena this week for sheriff’s office records that...
Author: WWL Staff; Published: 5:08 PM CDT March 15, 2023; Updated: 5:43 PM CDT March 15, 2023 In a letter to the mayor and the French Market Corporation, Inspector General Ed Michel stated that there is awaiting list of over 300 for an apartment at the Pontalba and that a market rate rental would be close...
WDSU.com Kourtney Williams, Updated: 11:53 PM CDT Mar 15, 2023 The Office of the Inspector General released a letter after looking into reports of the apartment being used as a residence by Cantrell. “The OIG recommends that the city relinquish the apartment to the French Quarter Market Corporation to rent to the public. This would...
